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Next week DevOps.com will be in Las Vegas to cover IBM’s InterConnect Conference. With over 200 DevOps related sessions, there is something for just about everyone on the schedule. We thought it would be useful to give you a peek at some of these presenters. Below are interviews of some InterConnect speakers from their recent […]

I had a chance to speak with Dan Berg, distinguished engineer at IBM. Dan and I discussed open technologies, open enterprise and open tool chains. A whole lot of open there. We also talked about how open technologies will be part of the upcoming IBM InterConnect event. Below is the stream of our conversation and […]

I had the pleasure of sitting down with IBM distinguished engineer Rosalind Radcliffe the other day to talk about bimodal IT, systems of engagement, variable speed DevOps and IBM’s upcoming InterConnect 2016 event. I have interviewed Rosalind many times over the last few years and it is always informative and interesting. I hope you find […]

Our InterConnect 2016 coverage kicks off with online events Once again this year DevOps.com will be providing extensive coverage of InterConnect. InterConnect 2016, features hundreds of sessions and tracks around DevOps. We think InterConnect offers more DevOps related tracks than any conference in the world. We are kicking off our InterConnect 2016 coverage with some […]

Last week I had a chance to sit down with Randy Newell, Marketing Director for DevOps at IBM. We talked about the buzz starting to build around InterConnect 2016 this February in Las Vegas. The call for speakers is open until September 25th. Randy and I spoke about last years event and what to expect […]

Continuous improvement can help completely turnaround a staid IT organization into an innovation machine. But without effective test automation, that transformation is a non-starter. So says Gary Gruver, who has led DevOps journeys both at HP and Macy’s and now works as a consultant guiding other organizations through his firm, Practical Large Scale Agile. Last […]

One of the most popular terms bandied about in DevOps is “shift left”. I was at a workshop last month at IBM InterConnect conducted by Sanjeev Sharma and Mustafa Kapadia. They put on a great workshop which was a preview of an exercise they perform in the field for clients. A central theme of their […]

“I’ve been with IBM for 25-years and been with the mainframe. We hear either that the mainframe is dead or that it will be retired in one or two years,” says Mike Fulton, IBM DevOps for Enterprise Systems CTO, and blogger at https://makingdeveloperslivesbetter.wordpress.com/. But IBM and Fulton have built bridges from the largely new and […]